The 42 people abducted by bandits in Government Science College Kagara have regained freedom. The Abductees include 27 students, 3 staff and 12 members of their family.

The Enugu Electricity Distribution Company (EEDC) says it will embark on mass disconnection of customers that have defaulted in payment of their electricity bills within the South East. The Head, Corporate Communications of EEDC, Mr Emeka Ezeh, said in Enugu on Sunday that the exercise would take effect from Monday, Feb. 22. Ezeh noted that […]

The All Progressives Congress (APC) says it is deeply saddened by the fatal crash of a military aircraft, Beechcraft KingAir B350i, at Basa village near Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja. The party said this in a statement by Sen. John Akpanudoedehe, the National Secretary of APC’s Caretaker and Extra-ordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC), on Sunday in […]

The interior minister of Libya’s UN-backed government, on Sunday survived an assassination attempt by unidentified gunmen in the west of the capital Tripoli, the Interior Ministry said in a statement. “At 3 p.m. (1300 GMT), an assassination attempt targeted Interior Minister Fathi Bashagha as he was returning from his residence in Janzour district (western Tripoli). […]

By Chinonso Alozie The former governor of Imo state and Senator Representing Imo West Senatorial district, Rochas Okorocha, Sunday accused the Imo state government of sending thugs to attack him.  Okorocha stated this to newsmen in Owerri, through his Special Adviser on media, Sam Onwuemeodo, while reacting to the clash at Royal Palm Estate that led […]

By Johnbosco Agbakwuru PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has expressed “great shock and deep concern” over the eruption of violence in Gombe State arising from the Billiri chieftaincy tussle. President Buhari, who was reacting to the development on Sunday, said: “I’m seriously disturbed by the outbreak of violence in Gombe State and call on the parties involved […]

By Kingsley Omonobi The Nigerian Air Force (NAF), earlier on Sunday, 21 February 2021, confirmed that one of its aircraft, a Beechcraft KingAir B350i (NAF 201), crashed while returning to the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport Abuja after reporting engine failure enroute Minna, where it was scheduled to conduct surveillance missions over Niger State and its […]

The eyewitnesses of the last moments of Nigerian Air Force, NAF, aircraft, a Beechcraft KingAir B350i (NAF 201), which crashed today, have narrated how the pilot, Flight Lieutenant Haruna Gadzama, battled to stabilise the plane and then steered it away from residential areas.A

By James Ogunnaike Barely twenty Four hours after the Ogun State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun announced that his administration would provide palliative to the victims of the recent conflict between herders and farmers in the Ogun West Senatorial District of the state, the state government has made bold its promise by delivering the first batch […]

Forty homeless people in Saint Petersburg received coronavirus vaccine jabs on Sunday, under a charity initiative that has  received the backing of local officials. “Here there are many people at risk. It is important for them to be vaccinated,” said Taysia Suvorova, of the Nochlezhka non-governmental that  organisation provides aid to the homeless in Russia’s […]